Friday, 8 July 2016

Segun Oduduwa to miss Olympics with knee injury set to sideline defender for eight months

The NIgeria U23 defender will miss his side's
Olympics campaign due to an injury picked up in training that also saw
him miss the Suwon tourney

Nigeria U23 defender Segun Oduduwa will be sidelined for about eight
months with an injury to his knee which means he will miss the 2016
Olympic Games.
Oduduwa, was dropped late from the 20-man squad picked by coach
Samson Siasia to the Suwon Invitational tournament after he copped the
injury at training.
The Nath Boys FC player suffered the injury following a bad tackle in
one of the Dream Team VI's training sessions at the practice pitch of
the National Stadium, Abuja.
After he underwent series of tests on the injury, medical officials
confirmed that the defender will be out for around eight months.
"Oduduwa will be out for a minimum of eight months," the sports
ministry’s medical director Abdulkadir Muazu confirmed to media
following the visit of top officials to the player at his hotel room in
Abuja on Wednesday.
Oduduwa subsequently misses Rio 2016 where the Dream Team VI will
feature in Group B of the men's tournament against Sweden, Colombia and
Japan.
The sad development will be a huge blow to coach Siasia who had hoped
to have one of his reliable defenders for the Olympics despite already
missing him at the Suwon tourney.

The 20-year-old featured for Dream Team VI at the All–Africa Games in
Brazzaville and the CAF U23 Championship in Senegal, where they sealed a
ticket to the Olympics as champions.